This is not link farms, they are high PR sites that are selling links. Quite the opposite of link farms
Just what they would have said just before Christopher Colombus set sail for America. Just because an idea is new does not mean it is wrong or right.
http://forums.digitalpoint.com/showthread.php?t=592737&page=10 This is not something that you can look up in book.... this is live right now! There are a few threads like this, but they really belong in link development. Basically G are trawling through DP and are individually penalizing sites with irregular linking patterns... basically text links with lots of juice. Only a fool would buy links from now on. Call it the DP penalty. Deindex Reindex Serps -50 Serps -70 Serps _ ??? Buy some links and give it a try if you are in any doubt!
Well put. Not only is it completely illogical, we would have heard about this already. There would be a public outcry!
as far as an outcry, how can there be much of an outcry? the outcry you see is on boards like this, and the problem is that if your site gets penalized, google doesn't tell you, so you are pretty much guessing as to what is happening
What's your site, and do you honestly think it holds that much importance that Google would take the time and resources to manually review it and apply a penalty? Don't you think Google would of started at the top and looked in to sites dominating the SERP's instead of starting with the bottom feeders? Your theory doesn't add up, and from my brief examination it would appear an algo update has negatively effected some websites. I've seen 2 different data sets switched in and out of the SERP's since the start of the Massive De-Indexing thread.
There is a lot of truth in what you are saying, but i don't think it just sites that are buying high PR links that are getting affected adversely i think also sites that are using co-op programs and getting 1,000 of links over short periods of time are also getting slapped by Google as well.
Very true. Unnatural link profile as Bogart would call it, just that I have never tried what you suggested. I had a negative rep for this post no doubt from a link seller trying to silence me. For any doubting Thomas, please post your website and it's keywords, and I will donate some infected juice to see if I can drop your serps........ but I don't think I will have any takers...... no balls.
You have no control over who links your website. If Google were punishing sites for who links them (without a recip link) then you could destroy anyone you wanted... Judging by most of the income threads I read on this forum, there is a tiny portion that would attract any personal attention from Google. I'm not sure why people think they are so special.
I can only base this on my own experience. What cannot be denied is a deindexing and penalty. I have an open mind, in which case what do you think it is?
Count me in, i've got a site with several fairly good keywords but the competition isn't what i'd call massive so it will make an ideal test case because any positive or negative movement will show fairly quickly. Sending you a PM for you to kill me.
lol well we will find out, i'm just putting my top referring search terms in to my tool and doing a snapshot of their current positions, getting number of indexed pages and various stats to guage what happens. This site is running under it's own steam, i don't promote it etc so any difference in it's backlink dynamics should show easily. Edit: Screenshots of all stats have been sent, which includes SERP positions, Number of indexed pages and backlink report. We will see if Valleys poison links kill my site or help it.
There is no possible way this is true! If it was then I would buy a couple bad links for my competitors sites to get the penalty applied to their sites and then it is bye bye competition. Inbound links can not hurt your rankings they can only be devalued according to different factors like relevancy to the content of your site. If you had a bunch of inbound links that recently got devalued in a Google update then you could see a drop in rankings due to that. The drop would be because your site would have had a decrease in link popularity because of the links that once counted as good inbound links, now have lost their value.
I don't know why there is still so much debate over shady link building practices, i recently wrote a blog post about too many backlinks and near the bottom of the post there is a link to the google webmasters link schemes page. in short any of the following will negatively affect your SERP's and could result in getting your site blacklisted/banned. Links intended to manipulate PageRank Links to web spammers or bad neighborhoods on the web Excessive reciprocal links or excessive link exchanging ("Link to me and I'll link to you.") Buying or selling links that pass PageRank You may not get caught out straight away but you will get caught in the end.